Customer Experience Blog
Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.
10 Customer Expectations You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Erica Strother Marios with ICMI recently put together a slide show on ten key customer expectations (as described in Call Center Management on Fast Forward). Take a minute to go through the slides at your next team meeting and discuss what your customers expect and...
Four Keys to Retaining Millennial Customers
It was great to be included in an article Telus International put together on retaining millennial customers. The article focuses on the financial services industry, but the principles apply to many other industries. Lindsey Groepper of BlastMedia and John Rampton of...
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 17: The Stunning Stats Behind Employee Engagement
The Edge of Service® Newsletter, Issue 17: The Stunning Stats Behind Employee Engagement I believe there are three categories of statistics any leader needs to know about employee engagement: First, employee engagement is strongly tied to customer experience. If...
Putting Abandonment in Perspective
In many contact centers, abandonment rate is viewed as a key measure of how adequately the center is staffed. I often get questions like, what is an acceptable rate of abandonment? What is abandonment in such and such an industry? Are there any studies on how long...
Connecting Hiring, Training and Coaching
Documenting Your Customer Access Strategy
Customer access strategies are like business plans in that some are well documented and others exist only in pieces and in the heads of various managers. Too often, the latter is the case. But there are standout examples of plans that are effective and up to date. A...
Cell Phone Inventor Predicts the Next Big Thing
According to Marty Cooper, 87 years old and a pioneerin wireless communication, cell phones have a big flaw: you constantly have to charge them. And that’s true for all connected wearables (e.g., watches, glasses, health devices). The next big thing, says Cooper, is...
Leaders Need to Spend Time on the Frontline
The Best Managed Contact Centers: #12 – They See the Possibilities
The contact center profession has come a long way in recent years. Customer expectations are high, and for good reason. For the most part, contact centers have learned how to deliver. Collectively, they have invested billions in equipment, networks and software. They...